Jad Abumrad
Abumrad at "Third Coast Festival", Oct. 22, 2005
Born	April 18, 1973 (1973-04-18) (age 36)
Show	Radiolab
Station(s)	WNYC
Style	Host
Country	United States
Children	Amil[1]

Jad Abumrad (born April 18, 1973) is an American radio host and producer. He has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero". ^[2] He currently hosts and produces Radiolab on WNYC.

Abumrad was raised in Tennessee, where his father, Dr. Naji Abumrad, is a doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. (Dr. Abumrad is featured on the Radiolab episode entitled "Placebo."^[3]) He attended Oberlin College, where he studied creative writing and music composition. Before entering radio, he wrote music for films.^[2] He has said that his background in music has influenced the way he experiments with sound in Radiolab.^[4] The December 14, 2009 Radiolab episode In C includes a musical piece by Abumrad remixing the Terry Riley composition In C.^[5]

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